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Rubin Carter's Hurricane


Jennifer Leija-Bonnart

Posted on January 05, 2012 at 02:54 PM

Great broadcast

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  • "Humankind: Rubin Carter's Hurricane"
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  • Summary: Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, who was falsely accused of murder. After nearly two decades in prison, Carter was exonerated by a federal judge (also heard in our documentary) in a ruling later affirmed by the US Supreme Court. Now in his 70s and an outspoken advocate for others wrongly convicted, Carter recently published a spiritual memoir on how he emerged not only from physical incarceration, but from the emotional prison of hatred and bitterness.

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